Fake placement agency busted, three arrested
July 29th, 2012 - 9:08 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) Three people, including a woman, were arrested for running a fake placement agency for household helps and cheating several people, including Rajya Sabha Secretary V.K. ... Read more...
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Body in bag: Woman identified as Myanmar national
May 23rd, 2011 - 11:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) The woman whose body was found stuffed in a travel bag three days ago in west Delhi has been identified as a 22-year-old Myanmar national ... Read more...
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Kidnapped Delhi toddler rescued, four arrested (Lead)
April 27th, 2011 - 3:21 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) An 18-month-old Delhi boy has been rescued from the clutches of his abductors, police said Wednesday adding that the kidnapping-for-ransom plan was hatched by a ... Read more...
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Married actor goes to court to hide his fling with Wayne Rooney’s vice girl
April 14th, 2011 - 2:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 14 (ANI): A leading actor, who allegedly cheated on his wife with the same vice girl who slept with footballer Wayne Rooney, has won a High Court gagging order to ... Read more...
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Peter Crouch questioned over late night visit to airhostess’ flat in Dubai
March 28th, 2011 - 2:41 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 28 (ANI): Footballer Peter Crouch was questioned by security in ultra-strict Dubai after he visited an airhostess' flat in the early hours of morning.Crouch, 30, had signed in as ... Read more...
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Teaching ban on ‘lesbian’ Brit teacher who sent ex-colleague sexual notes, roses
January 30th, 2011 - 1:12 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 30 (ANI): A Brit teacher, sacked for threatening to stab a pupil, has been banned from the profession after sending a female ex-colleague with gifts and sexually explicit messages.Disgraced former ... Read more...
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Bar manager loses licence for drinking beer in New Zealand
January 27th, 2011 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS
Wellington, Jan 27 (IANS) A bar manager, who was caught drinking in a no-liquor zone, is to lose his licence for three weeks that too after having already pleading guilty and been ... Read more...
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Smuggled videos show North Koreans’ anger at regime
November 28th, 2010 - 5:34 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 28 (IANS) Two videos, shot by group of North Korean "citizen journalists" and then smuggled to the media, indicate a growing willingness among a previously-cowed public to speak out and ... Read more...
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Woman poses as boy to seduce teenage girls
October 8th, 2010 - 3:46 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 8 (IANS) An American woman who posed as a teenage boy so she could seduce a teenage girl has been sentenced to six months in jail, a media report ... Read more...
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Indian pleads guilty to killing toddler in Australia
September 7th, 2010 - 1:48 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Sep 7 (IANS) An Indian national accused of killing three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa pleaded guilty Tuesday to the crime in a court in Australia.
Gursewak Dhillon, 23, appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court ... Read more...
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Churchill ‘ordered assassination of Mussolini to protect secret letters’
September 3rd, 2010 - 1:59 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 03 (ANI): A leading French historian has suggested that Winston Churchill ordered the assassination of Benito Mussolini as part of a plot to destroy potentially compromising secret letters he had ... Read more...
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Kerry Katona’s new beau is a kick-boxer hunk
August 29th, 2010 - 4:22 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 29 (ANI): Kerry Katona is dating a kick-boxer, according to sources.She found Scott Gibson on an online dating site Match.com, just weeks after dumping her decorator boyfriend.The twice-married mum-of-four ... Read more...
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Theft Of Kids’ Social Security Numbers May Collapse US Financial System
August 3rd, 2010 - 7:27 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Aug 3, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Beware! A new form of identity theft has hit the world in the recent past. The thieves are no longer interested in the Social Security Numbers ... Read more...
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Britain’s prolific book thief jailed
July 21st, 2010 - 5:49 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 21 (IANS) A Cambridge graduate who stole over 500 rare books from British libraries worth over a million pounds has been sent to prison.
William Jacques, 41 and hailing from North ... Read more...
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Doctor of Anna Nicole Smith Loses Dismissal Hearing
July 7th, 2010 - 10:54 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
July 7 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The former physician of the late Playboy Playmate ‘Anna Nicole Smith’ recently lost a motion to dismiss his case which was being heard in Los Angeles, ... Read more...
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LA Judge Rejects Defense Motion Against Anna Nicole Smith’s Doctor
July 7th, 2010 - 8:06 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
July 7, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): It has been more than three years, when former American model and actress Anna Nicole Smith died due to an accidental overdose. But ... Read more...
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Missing nuclear scientist found — in jail (Lead)
June 10th, 2010 - 6:41 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, June 10 (IANS) Nearly five days after a scientist with the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu was reported missing, he was traced Thursday to ... Read more...
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‘America’s Most Wanted’ Fugitive Paul Clouston Found in Merced!
June 3rd, 2010 - 3:37 am ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
June 2 (THAINDIAN NEWS) One of the fugitives from the television show America's Most Wanted has been found in Merced on Tuesday. Paul Clouston, 74 was one of the US Marshal's Office's ... Read more...
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High temperatures in car boot may have killed Gurshan
May 17th, 2010 - 1:09 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, May 17 (ANI): Three-year-old Indian kid Gurshan Singh could have died from heat exhaustion when he was left in dangerously high temperatures in a car boot for hours after suffering minor ... Read more...
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Shoaib and Sania face fresh trouble
April 21st, 2010 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, April 21 (IANS) A day after getting back his passport, Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and his wife Indian tennis star Sania Mirza Wednesday faced fresh trouble with a city court asking ... Read more...
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Fugitive killer was running wedding chapel
March 26th, 2010 - 7:02 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, March 26 (IANS) A convicted murderer, who has been on the run for 38 years, is back behind bars in the US after being discovered running a wedding chapel, a media ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka probes funds of president’s chief rival
February 21st, 2010 - 6:43 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Feb 21 (DPA) Sri Lanka is investigating whether foreign sources funded the campaign of defeated opposition presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The former Army commander is already in ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Indian accused of rape Down Under wanted ‘fresh faces’ as models
January 19th, 2010 - 1:36 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, January 19 (ANI): An Indian in Australia has been charged for allegedly raping a woman after luring her, claiming to be a fashion executive searching for "fresh faces" for luxury lingerie ... Read more...
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Incognito Aamir puts hotel into trouble (Lead)
December 16th, 2009 - 9:01 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Dec 16 (IANS) Bollywood star Aamir Khan's incognito stay in a Varanasi hotel has put its owner in trouble, with the police charging the hotel with violating the identity verification ... Read more...
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Cassandra Sproch Arrested For Offering Sex And Wine To Teenagers
December 3rd, 2009 - 7:03 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
Dec. 03, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Cassandra Sproch, a dance instructor residing in Pittsburgh, has been arrested by the Allegheny County Police on the charges of attempting to seduce minors and offering ... Read more...
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Austria slammed for rights denial of 19 Indian origin migrants
September 17th, 2009 - 7:36 pm ICT by IANS
Vienna, Sep 17 (IANS) The death of an Indian asylum seeker who was on hunger strike has led to growing human rights concerns here over the plight of illegal immigrants who ... Read more...
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Scientists rediscover “extinct” bird living under false name and wearing mask
August 12th, 2009 - 1:29 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 12 (ANI): In a surprising finding, scientific sleuths have rediscovered an "extinct" bird living under a false name and wearing a mask.Native to small islands off Australia and ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Jackson was conned by doctors into surgery: friend
July 10th, 2009 - 11:02 pm ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, July 10 (IANS) Pop legend Michael Jackson's close family friend Mark Lester has revealed that the singer was conned into spending thousands of dollars on plastic surgery throughout his ... Read more...
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Cops attacked to avenge firing after Mecca blast
May 19th, 2009 - 12:10 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, May 19 (IANS) A little known terror outfit called Tehreek-e-Galba-e-Islam has claimed responsibility for Monday's attack on policemen here and said it was to avenge police firing on Muslims protesting the ... Read more...
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“Boob-job bandit” surrenders to police in US
March 26th, 2009 - 4:05 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 26 (ANI): A fugitive woman accused of "stealing" a new pair of breasts has surrendered to police.Yvonne Pampellonne, 30, is accused of using fake ID to get 8, 000 pounds ... Read more...
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Anna Nicole Smith’’s beau, lawyer charged with giving her drugs
March 13th, 2009 - 2:26 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 13 (ANI): Anna Nicole Smith''s boyfriend, attorney and two doctors were charged Thursday with conspiring to give her prescription drugs before she died in 2007, the Los Angeles District ... Read more...
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Woman finds job after putting ‘’self up for sale online”
December 8th, 2008 - 2:11 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Dec 8 (ANI): A jobless woman landed a job after putting "herself up for sale" on an online auction site.The 23-year-old woman lost her job due to economic ... Read more...
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61yr-old sprays teenage intruder in the nude
November 21st, 2008 - 5:40 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, November 21 (ANI): A sexagenarian man used a garden hose to fight off a teenage intruder in his backyard wearing nothing.
Walter Mayer, 61, even chased the youth down the street ... Read more...
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Conman with Catch Me If You Can moves gets caught
October 5th, 2008 - 4:44 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 5 (ANI): International conman, Anthony De Clerck, who has been living life like the fraudster in the Hollywood movie Catch Me If You Can, was arrested on October 4 ... Read more...
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